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[Sally_Mahoney]

Pet dinosaur does not count as passenger in the HOV lane

Doyouthinktheysaurus? Yes. Yes they did.

[DukeTrout]

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/heres-the-gross-sexual-remark-jim-carrey-made-to-a-woman-reporter-while-promoting-sonic-the-hedgehog/162125/198?u=duketrout

Gaslighting, astroturfing, and sealioning will be called out as such.

[FGD135]

Respirator masks with your face printed on it

I bet money that the moment people start using these to throw off video surveillance by easily changing their facial features they will be forbidden. Also: if you can unlock a phone with this mask, that phone is very easy to unlock, steal, hack… It’s a typical case where someone thinks about a problem THEY might have but it isn’t a good idea for many reasons (90% of startups are this, 9% are “Uber, but for [random thing]” and 1% are about solving problems in a scalable way)

This bit in particular:
It’s a typical case where someone thinks about a problem THEY might have but it isn’t a good idea for many reasons (90% of startups are this, 9% are “Uber, but for [random thing]” and 1% are about solving problems in a scalable way)

[Melz2]

@MalevolentPixy

Don’t think that you live in a white supremacist culture, especially in the Americas? Look around. Look at your government, from the low rungs all the way up to the top.

Are you using a European-derived form of government such as a republic or parliament? Congratulations, you’ve got white supremacy baked in. Is that government populated mostly or in large part by descendants of European colonists? Congratulations! You have white culture! What’s the most commonly practiced religion? Is it a form of Christianity? White Culture, Baby. Are the most common or official language(s) from Europe? Take a wild guess what that means.

Unless the Natives/First Nations/Aboriginal People are running your country under a governing system they traditionally used and you have assimilated into their language and religious practices… it’s pretty much a guarantee you are living in some flavour of white supremacist system. And nobody here is saying that you have to give all that up, just that you recognize how it works to privilege the culture of whiteness and suppress others. Listen to those voices and work for ways to suppress them less.

If you don’t want to do that, then admit that you are happy and comfortable living in a white supremacist culture. It doesn’t mean that you are a flag-carrying, torch-waving Nazi. It just means you’re okay with being indifferent to people less privileged than you, because you would rather not have to be uncomfortable, thinking about these things.

[Immutable_Mike]

Burger King shows sandwich decaying to moldy slab of meat and bread in new ad

“Welcome to Burger King, home of the Whopper™, which shall go the way of all flesh. May I take your order?” “Yeah, I’ll have the Cheddar Bacon King sandwich.” “Would you like fries or onion rings with that? We come from dust and will eventually return to dust.” “Yeah, large fries, and a Diet Coke.” “That will be $7.59. Please pull around. Memento mori.”

[smulder]

@akbar5656

Leslie Nielsen high on mushrooms. What more could you want?

[Immutable_Mike]

I didn’t want to derail that thread, but here I feel safe to say “Nothing”.

[DukeTrout]

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/india-worst-mass-violence-in-delhi-in-decades-kills-13-during-trump-visit/163548/41?u=duketrout

Hell yes.

[davide405]

Excellent breakdown

Trump's campaign is suing the NY Times for libel over Russian collusion op-ed

Assuming arguendo that Barr will abuse his authority, the question arises as to how he will go about it. Ordinarily, New York state trial courts do not solicit or accept amicus curiae briefs, so that route is likely closed. There’s no real possibility of removing the case to Federal court, since the Trump campaign consented to the New York court’s jurisdiction by filing the action in the first place. I’m sure that the Times will find the New York State courts to be a more friendly forum! Assu…

[Sally_Mahoney]

The Dow is on track for its worst weekly slide since the 2008 financial crisis

Absolutely. But none of those things are unique to Trump, even if they are on the rise. Hoping for a pandemic combined with a recession, to get rid of Trump? That’s not cool. When it comes down to it, we the people, and whoever ends up challenging Trump, need to beat him on the merits (which are plentiful) rather than an accident of timing of bad shit. I think more progressive candidates are best suited both to beat him, and to get the country back on the right track. We will need a huge effo…

[Ratel]

Cathryn Aison and Philip Glass's lovely abstract animation for Sesame Street (1979)

Baby Einstein on the Beach

[DukeTrout]

Bloomberg quits race, endorses Biden

Class reductionists want to reduce all oppression to being class based. In theory this sounds fine, but in practice women, POC and LGBTQ+ get told that the class war takes priority over the fight for their rights, but everything will be ok after the revolution. The revolutions that we have had show this doesn’t happen, those rights still need to be fought for and all that is different is that there are new leaders telling them to wait. This is before you include groups like the tankies, who hate…

Nailed it!

[Sally_Mahoney]

Man who was fined $500 for criticizing traffic light timing gets his idea adopted by Institute of Transportation Engineers

I just assumed anyone with TWO umlauts in their name knows what they’re talking about!

[Immutable_Mike]

Costco completely out of divination supplies, thanks to artist

Better than the ones at Ikea that come in a flatpak. But you can use them to summon some gravlax, so that’s okay.

[davide405]

Any parent or teacher can understand the truth spoken here…

The great coronavirus toilet paper shortage of 2020

That’s the problem with teenvirus. It has an incubation period of 12 years, then it’s symptomatic for another 6. Fortunately, affected individuals tend to stay away from the young (although it tends to spread to this group) and elderly, who seem to be immune aside from the permanent mental scars.

[davide405]

Click through to read the Twitter thread. It’s the presidential speech we needed.

Stocks plunge after Trump travel ban; NYSE suspends trading

THIS. It should have been this.

[ficuswhisperer]

On Liz not endorsing Bernie

Honestly people acting this way are making me feel bad about myself for voting for Sanders in the primary. Like, honestly, it makes me doubt him even more. I already disagree with several key points in his platform but think that his overall efforts are worth pushing for and I support them (M4A mostly) with such depth and sincerity that I’m willing to tank personal loss even if it would make for a better outcome. However, I have at risk family. I have parents with issues like COPD and mental hea…

A wonderfully stated response.

[anon61221983]

Super-rich head off to their doomsday bunkers

This is part and parcel of what Rogan does. He doesn’t apply pressure to people or challenge them. He just acknowledges and and let’s them talk. Everything is “great”, everything is “interesting”, he never thought of it that way. With reasonable folk he’ll do shit like ask about vitamin shots and saunas repeatedly. Their presence in such a reasonable discussion, makes them seem valid by association. And said reasonable discussion will sit in a context of regular appearances by Alex Jones, alt-…

A pretty good summation…

[LutherBlisset]

Drop everything and read this:

Ongoing coronavirus happenings

Data nerds, this one’s for you! (and everybody else, too).

Seriously.

ETA: moved this from the topic here to explain why you should read this.

Personally, I am currently contemplating how to convince everyone at office to skip a meeting on Monday (attendance obligatory, around 25 attendees), hoe to get my family to not coming over on Sunday for a long postponed birthday celebration, how to convince my family that we need to stop attending childcare, and so on.

The thing is, the cognitive dissonance is strong even with me. I am a biologist with a statistics background. I should know better. But while having a cold (symptoms: sneezing, runny nose, later: clogged sinuses, headaches on and off, productive non-dry cough, no fever at all) I went to work the last two weeks. I organised a yearly work meeting on 3.3.2020 of about 80 people while being on the height of my cold, expecting that this would be a pandemic.

I am an idiot, and I will have to decide if I go to work today in the next hour.

That article above, read about eight hours ago, did more to break my own cognitive dissonance than any other single piece up until now.

Decisions must be made. By me.

[DonatellaNobody]

@Man who was fined $500 for criticizing traffic light timing gets his idea adopted by Institute of Transportation Engineers boing

I just assumed anyone with TWO umlauts in their name knows what they’re talking about!

I assumed Turkish, but yeah, Swedish works too.